A happy sheep, newly moved in to her new home on a smallholding.
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How to Get Started on a Smallholding – Part Three

Are you interested in becoming a smallholder? Would you like to find out what is involved in getting started on your smallholding? Here is part three in a series intended to help you turn your smallholding dreams into reality! So, you have your smallholding! The last post outlined the big ticket items to consider in…

Large pile of wood rounds, to be split and stored for burning

Moving Away From Fossil Fuels: Managing a Wood Store

Are you concerned about your carbon footprint and keen to move away from using fossil fuels to heat and run your home? Have you considered using wood for heating and cooking? Are you interested in the practicalities of relying on solid fuels such as wood? Here’s how we make wood burning work for us. Introduction…

A sheep in a frosty field at sunrise, looking out across a smallholding.

Progress on the Smallholding: Five Year Review

How much can a smallholder accomplish in five years? We have recently celebrated our five-year anniversary on the smallholding. So here’s a review of all we have done in that time! Chickens Once we had moved in, the first big objective was to get ready for chickens. We had previously kept back-garden chickens some years…